Self Appointed Long Island Booze Committee Episode 11: Silver Tequila Taste off!

Welcome back fellow Boozers, to the Self Appointed Booze Committee! In our first teqila test, "Silver Tequila Taste Off!" we put bargain priced Jose Cuervo Especial, Hijo de Villas, and Herradura Silver against the more premium priced Patron Silver, Avion, and 1800. What will be our first tequila champ? Listen to find out!

Immediately following the events of episode 10, our hammered heroes decided to taste a few waters, including Anheuser-Busch canned water. Hilarity ensued as we figured out exactly why Budweiser products are so awful.

The core of this test was a variety pack of the Polish Chopin vodka, In potato, wheat, and rye varieties. Potato-based Spud vodka, also from Poland was put head to head against Chopin Potato, American Grays Peak was put against the wheat. Ultimat vodka, also from Poland, is a blend of potato, grain, and rye. These were all unknown quantities to us, so we also threw in the perfectly adequate bargain priced grain based Rokk as a baseline. There were a couple of real stinkers and one was even officially denounced, but a challenger emerged to put the venerable champ Crystal Head to the test. The ending was a little ambiguous, as you’ll see.

We began discussing Maker's Mark aborted plan to water down their bourbon, and Beth compared this move to the New Coke debacle in the 80s. From then we went into a half hour tangent that had very little to do with bourbon. We cut that from the episode because of time considerations. Episode 9 already turned out to be a 2 part episode, our longest ever. But we thought it was interesting enough to use as bonus material for later release. That time has come!

Welcome back fellow boozers! I am, of course, your Supreme Ayahtollah for Life of the Booze Committee, Eric Robertson. It’s been a while for reasons that we’ll explain later in the episode. I’m calling this one bourbon boogaloo 2.2 because there was a truly epic 5 person, 10 bourbon tasting which was recorded and documented, but was unfortunately totally lost. We’ll refer back to that marvelous experience, but for this round, we have 6 bourbons, Buffalo Trace and Eagle Rare from the Buffalo Trace Distillery, Rare Breed from Wild Turkey, Heaven Hill’s Elijah Craig, Upstart Town Branch, and the well regarded Woodford Reserve, which had been crowned World Champion bourbon in the lost episode. We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back fellow boozers! I am, of course, your Supreme Ayahtollah for Life of the Booze Committee, Eric Robertson. It’s been a while for reasons that we’ll explain later in the episode. I’m calling this one bourbon boogaloo 2.2 because there was a truly epic 5 person, 10 bourbon tasting which was recorded and documented, but was unfortunately totally lost. We’ll refer back to that marvelous experience, but for this round, we have 6 bourbons, Buffalo Trace and Eagle Rare from the Buffalo Trace Distillery, Rare Breed from Wild Turkey, Heaven Hill’s Elijah Craig, Upstart Town Branch, and the well regarded Woodford Reserve, which had been crowned World Champion bourbon in the lost episode. We hope you enjoy!

Recorded on Yuri Night 2012. The Supreme Ayatollah for Life Eric Robertson was joined by "Bad Wolf", "Vin", "Nadine Nadester", and Andrew Kanninen from the faraway land of Dutchess County, NY. Andrew wanted to try the old gatekeeper Ketel One and so we grabbed all the Dutch vodkas we had on the shelf to determine the national champion of Holland! Trump and Ketel One returned to square off against newcomers Effen, V2, Vincent Van Gogh. As usual, the results were somewhat surprising. Current champ Crystal Head was tested against Dutch Champion afterwards. Who prevailed? Download to find out!

You can't spell Spring without "G" "I", or "N" so our friend "Bad Wolf" helped our Supreme Ayatollah sort through some Gins... meanwhile, we happened to get some Zombie talk in, which seemed appropriate considering how long it's been since there was a new episode. People probably thought we were dead! Our contenders include Pride and Clarke's London Dry Gin, Beefeaters, Bombay, Bombay Sapphire, New Amsterdam, and Self proclaimed "best gin in the world" Brokers! We put them to the test and give you the results! Enjoy!

This time around, Supreme Ayatollah for Life Eric Robertson, Founding Father "Johnny D" and special guest Ben Galvez review 7 Blended scotches, in order of what was tasted first: Cutty Sark, Dewars white label, The Famous Grouse, Chivas Regal 12 year old, Johnny Walker Black Label, Chivas Regal 18 year old, and Johnny Walker Gold Label. Two are downright toxic, so you should probably tune in and find out which ones? Originally Published 20March2011

In the ongoing vodka saga, Eric and Evan put the bargain-priced Iceberg, Fris, and "premium" vodkas Absolut and Skyy 90 against each other. Since one is downright poisonous, you should probably listen to this episode to make sure you avoid it!